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Walter Summers (1892 [1] –1973) was a British film director and screenwriter. [2] Biography. Born in Barnstaple to a family of actors, Walter Summers began his career in the family trade; his first contact with filmmaking was as an assistant to American director George Loane Tucker, who worked for the English London Films unit from 1914 to 1916.
Walter Summers is one of the most unjustly forgotten directors in British cinema. Much of his obscurity is due to his best years being in the silent era and also to most of his best films taking World War One as their unfashionable subject matter.
Jan 9, 2014 · Walter Summers was a highly decorated war veteran but the precise details of his early life and military career have become a little mangled through a combination of hazy memory and the application of a bit of stardust.
Walter Summers was born on September 2, 1896 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Raise the Roof (1930), Hell's Cargo (1935) and Timbuctoo (1933). He died in April 1973 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
- Writer, Director, Producer
- September 2, 1896
- The Sea Hawk (1940) Director: Michael Curtiz. With the United States pursuing a policy of isolationism during the first years of the Second World War, Hollywood was supposed to remain neutral.
- We Dive at Dawn (1943) Director: Anthony Asquith. The docu-dramatic style pioneered by Walter Summers in his silent trilogy became a key facet of British films during the Second World War.
- San Demetrio London (1943) Director: Charles Frend. Supply convoys were the lifeline that enabled Britain to stand alone against the Third Reich for over a year.
- Western Approaches (1944) Director: Pat Jackson. Convinced that monochrome did insufficient justice to the visual and dramatic spectacle of the war in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Information ordered the Crown Film Unit to use Technicolor for this study of the bond between those sailing under the white and red ensigns.
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Walter George Thomas Summers was born into a theatrical family in Barnstable, Devon on 2 September 1896. He gained considerable stage experience before joining the London Films Company in 1912 as an assistant to George Loane Tucker.
